HIV/AIDS: Drug Addictions and Social Consequences

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This paper examines how The threat of HIV/AIDS is, without much contest, one of the greatest human health crises in the modern world and how left unchecked, the virus threatens to consume much of the world's population, particularly among populations in Third World countries, which already suffer under less than adequate health care. It looks at how injection drug users (IDUs) account for an alarmingly large proportion of new cases, especially in Third World countries. It also discusses how the relationship between drug addiction and HIV/AIDS is an important one to understand, as well as the costs that the virus inflicts on societies worldwide.

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